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Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.

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Journal Article

Changes in soil cadmium concentrations with time following cessation of phosphorus fertilizer inputs

Cadmium (Cd) can accumulate in soil from the application of phosphorus fertilizer. However, there is little information on what happens to soil Cd concentrations when…
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Journal Article

Municipal composts reduce the transfer of Cd from soil to vegetables

Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential trace element that accumulates in agricultural soils through the application of Cd-rich phosphate fertiliser. Vegetables can accumulate Cd to concentrations…
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Technical Report

Regenerative agriculture in Aotearoa NZ: project overview and statement of purpose

Traditional agricultural science can often take a linear approach: knowledge is shared from scientists to farmers, who might then adopt one change and observe the…
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Guidance

Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook

In te ao Māori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga – it holds ancestral connections and is the root of tūrangawaewae and whakapapa. It…
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Interactive Tool

Groundwater Detection Power Calculator

This GitHub package is designed to calculate the statistical power of detecting a change in groundwater/surface concentration depending on sampling duration, sampling frequency, ‘true’ receptor…
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Journal Article

A copula-based analysis of severity-duration-frequency of droughts in six climatic regions of NZ

We used a copula to model the joint drought duration-severity distribution and frequency to generate SDF curves for six locations in different climatic regions (3…
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Technical Report

Pā to Plate: Indicators of Success

Pā to Plate (P2P) is an aspirational Māori socio-economic enterprise pilot that was established in 2016 in Tai Tokerau (Northland). Over the past five to…
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Summary

Alternative protein scenarios – 2-page summary

Scenarios were created to outline the potential outcomes around the future for alternative protein in New Zealand based on expert interview, a literature review, and…
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Incentives For Data Sharing

Incentives for Data Sharing

Developing a multilateral data-sharing agreement model that increases access to data
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